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David Byrne
Age: 119
Born: 1905
Born: May 6
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Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms.
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I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'
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The most common music that you hear anywhere in the world now basically has its roots in that union that happened in the last century, or in the century before that. That kind of music that's groove or beat oriented just didn't exist in lots of cultures before that.
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You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.
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Physical contact is a human necessity.
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I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same
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The world isn't logical, it's a song.
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I think sometimes I get carried away, like I'm speaking to an imaginary audience rather than just trying to figure something out for myself. Ideally, I try to balance that - that I'm asking these questions of myself, how does this work, why does this happen, what's going on here.
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I resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works.
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I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else
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I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
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I'm just wearing regular street clothes. Pretty much all the time. In the summertime, or when it gets warm out, shorts and sandals or something like that. Stuff that I don't mind getting a little sweaty.
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I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?
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I have something to say about the difference between American and European cities, but I forgot what it was. I have it written down at home somewhere.
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Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I'm riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park - no, I don't wear the dreaded helmet then.
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Punk. . .was more a kind of do-it-yourself, anyone-can-do-it attitude. If you only played two notes on the guitar, you could figure out a way to make a song out of that, and that's what it was all about.
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This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around.
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I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I get used to the place and I don't notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is.
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I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.
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